The Acid House Critic Reviews

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San Francisco Chronicle | Edward GuthmannAdd Critic to Favorites

A blast of manic energy in the form of a film.Read the full review

Variety | Brendan KellyAdd Critic to Favorites

The Acid House makes "Trainspotting" look like a mild-mannered youth comedy.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | John AndersonAdd Critic to Favorites

A virulent but thoroughly entertaining trilogy of tales about the besieged lower classes of Edinburgh, ripe with vulgarity, self-loathing, violence and economic disorder.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Tasha RobinsonAdd Critic to Favorites

The Acid House comes across as a shadow of "Trainspotting," albeit a vibrant, noisy, frantic shadow.Read the full review

The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites

With a cackling nihilistic glee, the movie rubs our faces in the stinking, screaming muck of raw human appetite and insists that that's all there is.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

Three stories by the guy who wrote Trainspotting, banged and smashed into a film by Paul McGuigan with none of Trainspotting's charm and all its grotesquerie.Read the full review

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